Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 232 327
Rank change year-on-year -116 +95 -19
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 565 676 676
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.35% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.52% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 258 290 365
10th Percentile £36,250 £44,875 £39,532
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,934 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £116,375 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,105 44,566 67,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 89.27% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 53,741 25,228 43,541
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,575 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 14 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -110 500 £60,000 -14.29% 746
London -15 318 £66,771 -16.54% 504
Work from Home +18 225 £60,425 -7.04% 314
UK excluding London -202 189 £60,000 -4.00% 295
North of England -36 54 £63,000 -6.67% 58
South East -147 36 £38,500 -38.40% 90
North West +6 34 £83,750 +31.37% 36
Midlands -35 29 £45,000 -25.00% 42
East of England -21 26 £65,000 -11.56% 31
South West -74 26 £68,528 +14.21% 33
West Midlands -27 22 £50,000 -16.67% 32
Yorkshire -42 18 £57,500 -23.33% 16
Scotland +5 12 £77,500 -4.62% 26
East Midlands -32 7 £37,500 -46.04% 10
Wales -62 3 £65,000 +8.59% 9
Northern Ireland -70 3 - - 8
North East - 2 £90,000 - 6

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (5.13%) Confluence
2 15 (2.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (2.12%) CMS
4 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.53%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.18%) Drupal
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (9.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 26 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.88%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.71%) Moqups
6 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (6.90%) Workfront
2 6 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.71%) Shopify
4 3 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.35%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.35%) iTrent
5 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.18%) Eikon
6 1 (0.18%) Magento
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.18%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.18%) RMDS
6 1 (0.18%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 83 (14.69%) AWS
2 82 (14.51%) SaaS
3 58 (10.27%) Azure
4 53 (9.38%) iPaaS
5 20 (3.54%) GCP
6 16 (2.83%) Google Workspace
7 15 (2.65%) GitHub
8 14 (2.48%) Figma
9 13 (2.30%) Power Platform
10 11 (1.95%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.24%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.06%) Asana
13 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.71%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (0.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 3 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (0.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 3 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 61 (10.80%) Broadband
2 31 (5.49%) HTTP
3 10 (1.77%) WAN
4 7 (1.24%) Firewall
4 7 (1.24%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.06%) LAN
6 5 (0.88%) Network Security
7 4 (0.71%) Multicast
7 4 (0.71%) NGN
7 4 (0.71%) SAN
8 3 (0.53%) Intranet
8 3 (0.53%) MPLS
8 3 (0.53%) VSAT
8 3 (0.53%) WLAN
9 2 (0.35%) DNS
9 2 (0.35%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.35%) Skype
9 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.18%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (9.73%) Metadata
2 12 (2.12%) Power BI
3 8 (1.42%) Big Data
4 6 (1.06%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.06%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.35%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.18%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.18%) MySQL
8 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.18%) Redis
8 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (9.38%) JIRA
2 10 (1.77%) Git
3 8 (1.42%) Claude Code
4 7 (1.24%) Selenium
5 6 (1.06%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.71%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.71%) JUnit
6 4 (0.71%) Postman
7 2 (0.35%) TestNG
8 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.18%) GitLab
8 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 183 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 182 (32.21%) Marketing
3 172 (30.44%) Finance
4 93 (16.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 89 (15.75%) Banking
6 88 (15.58%) Law
7 80 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
8 59 (10.44%) Retail
9 58 (10.27%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (7.61%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (5.49%) Legal
12 28 (4.96%) Public Sector
13 26 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (3.36%) Manufacturing
15 17 (3.01%) Telecoms
16 14 (2.48%) Retail Banking
17 13 (2.30%) Back Office
17 13 (2.30%) Italian Language
18 11 (1.95%) Financial Institution
19 10 (1.77%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 159 (28.14%) Product Manager
2 82 (14.51%) Lead
3 74 (13.10%) Product Owner
4 71 (12.57%) Senior
5 44 (7.79%) Software Engineer
6 37 (6.55%) Senior Manager
7 34 (6.02%) Senior Product Manager
8 32 (5.66%) Development Engineer
8 32 (5.66%) Software Development Engineer
9 29 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (3.54%) Product Lead
11 17 (3.01%) Consultant
11 17 (3.01%) Developer
11 17 (3.01%) Platform Manager
12 16 (2.83%) Development Manager
12 16 (2.83%) Technical Manager
13 13 (2.30%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (2.30%) Technical Engineer
13 13 (2.30%) Technical Product Manager
14 12 (2.12%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.55%) REST
2 15 (2.65%) Google Maps API
3 14 (2.48%) React
4 8 (1.42%) HTML
4 8 (1.42%) PyTorch
4 8 (1.42%) TensorFlow
5 7 (1.24%) LangChain
6 6 (1.06%) CSS
6 6 (1.06%) Pandas
6 6 (1.06%) Spring
7 5 (0.88%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.71%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (0.71%) LangGraph
8 4 (0.71%) Node.js
8 4 (0.71%) NumPy
8 4 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (0.71%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.53%) CrewAI
9 3 (0.53%) LlamaIndex
9 3 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 190 (33.63%) Product Ownership
2 66 (11.68%) Social Media
3 54 (9.56%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (9.56%) Over-the-Top Content
4 37 (6.55%) Cloud Native
5 36 (6.37%) Public Cloud
6 32 (5.66%) AI Agents
7 31 (5.49%) Onboarding
8 18 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (3.01%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.83%) Augmented Reality
11 15 (2.65%) Virtual Reality
12 13 (2.30%) Web Conferencing
13 12 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (1.95%) Blog
15 10 (1.77%) Educational Technology
16 9 (1.59%) Mobile App
16 9 (1.59%) Taxonomies
17 8 (1.42%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.65%) Linux
2 9 (1.59%) Windows
3 4 (0.71%) Unix
4 3 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) CentOS
5 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (60.71%) Roadmaps
2 243 (43.01%) Agile
3 164 (29.03%) Product Roadmap
4 151 (26.73%) AI
5 133 (23.54%) Decision-Making
6 131 (23.19%) Product Vision
7 118 (20.88%) Customer Experience
8 116 (20.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 113 (20.00%) Product Backlog
9 113 (20.00%) User Stories
10 110 (19.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 95 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
12 87 (15.40%) Software Engineering
13 86 (15.22%) Product Requirements
14 84 (14.87%) Analytics
15 82 (14.51%) User Experience
16 79 (13.98%) Product Strategy
17 78 (13.81%) Sprint Planning
18 75 (13.27%) Matrix Organization
19 74 (13.10%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (8.32%) Java
2 32 (5.66%) Python
3 13 (2.30%) SQL
3 13 (2.30%) TypeScript
4 12 (2.12%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.59%) C++
6 6 (1.06%) Bicep
6 6 (1.06%) R
7 3 (0.53%) Bash
7 3 (0.53%) C#
7 3 (0.53%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.53%) PHP
7 3 (0.53%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.35%) Perl
9 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 128 (22.65%) Degree
2 33 (5.84%) Master's Degree
3 23 (4.07%) Security Cleared
4 21 (3.72%) MBA
5 20 (3.54%) SC Cleared
6 15 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.59%) HND
7 9 (1.59%) PhD
8 8 (1.42%) HNC
9 7 (1.24%) CSPO
9 7 (1.24%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.24%) PMP
10 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.88%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.71%) CCNA
12 4 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.53%) CISSP
13 3 (0.53%) Dell Certification
13 3 (0.53%) IIBA
13 3 (0.53%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.55%) QA
2 23 (4.07%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.59%) GDPR
4 7 (1.24%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.24%) PMO
5 4 (0.71%) PERC
5 4 (0.71%) SLA
6 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.35%) DICOM
6 2 (0.35%) GRC
6 2 (0.35%) HL7
6 2 (0.35%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.77%) Docker
2 6 (1.06%) Firmware
3 4 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (3.01%) Terraform
2 9 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.53%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.53%) WSUS
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 58 (10.27%) Adobe
2 43 (7.61%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.96%) Salesforce
4 24 (4.25%) Google
5 17 (3.01%) Facebook
5 17 (3.01%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.12%) Workday
7 11 (1.95%) Cisco
8 10 (1.77%) Oracle
9 6 (1.06%) Juniper
10 5 (0.88%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.53%) Aderant
12 3 (0.53%) Fujitsu
12 3 (0.53%) iManage
12 3 (0.53%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.53%) Reuters
12 3 (0.53%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.53%) Starlink
12 3 (0.53%) VMware